U.S. Benefited From Research Deal With China

Theft of US intellectual property by China-backed state actors is a political and economic strategy that’s been in play for years. It’s a strategy that many Chinese government leaders have as much as admitted, Art Raymond reported for Deseret News.

Photo Insert: The US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA), a long-running pact that brought researchers from China and the US together in collaborative projects that have yielded wide-ranging benefits for both countries, is up for renewal but which US lawmakers want to lapse.

But alongside the practice of pirating innovations developed in the US, which the Chinese government has characterized as a matter of national security policy, is the US-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA), a long-running pact that brought researchers from China and the US together in collaborative projects that have yielded wide-ranging benefits for both countries.

The STA is up for renewal, which US lawmakers want to lapse.

A report from The Wall Street Journal on the data assembled by Clarivate, a London-based data firm that tracks global scientific research, shows the US may be the biggest loser if the program is junked.

Caroline Wagner, a professor of public policy at Ohio State University, said 40% of US research is the product of work produced with colleagues outside of the country. China and the US are each other’s No. 1 collaborators in science research.

The US depends more on China than China does on the US in some strategic areas of research efforts.

Between 2017 and 2021, US-China collaborations accounted for 27% of US-based scientists’ high-quality research in nanoscience, but only 13% of China-based scientists.’

The gap in telecommunications research was more pronounced, with collaborations accounting for 10% of China’s output but more than 33% of the US.’

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